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Syrian forces massacred 1,500 Alawites. The chain of command led to Damascus.
Reuters ^ | June 30, 20255:08 AM CDT | Maggie Michael

Posted on 06/30/2025 11:15:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

LATAKIA, Syria - The young man’s heart was sliced from his chest and placed on his body. His name was No. 56 on a handwritten list of 60 dead that included his cousins, neighbors and at least six children from their coastal Syrian village.

The men who killed 25-year-old Suleiman Rashid Saad called his father from the young victim’s phone and dared him to fetch the body. It was next to the barbershop.

“His chest was wide open. They cut out his heart. They put it on top of his chest,” said his father, Rashid Saad. It was late afternoon on March 8 in the village of Al-Rusafa. The killings of Alawites were nowhere near over.

The slaughter of Suleiman Rashid Saad was part of a wave of killings by Sunni fighters in Alawite communities along Syria’s Mediterranean coast from March 7 to 9. The violence came in response to a day-old rebellion organized by former officers loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad that left 200 security forces dead, according to the government.

A Reuters investigation has pieced together how the massacres unfolded, identifying a chain of command leading from the attackers directly to men who serve alongside Syria’s new leaders in Damascus. Reuters found nearly 1,500 Syrian Alawites were killed and dozens were missing. The investigation revealed 40 distinct sites of revenge killings, rampages and looting against the religious minority, long associated with the fallen Assad government.

The days of killing exposed the deep polarization in Syria that its new government has yet to overcome, between people who supported Assad, whether tacitly or actively, and those who hoped the rebellion against him would ultimately succeed. Many in Syria resent Alawites, who enjoyed disproportionate influence inside the military and government during Assad’s two-decade rule.

The Reuters findings...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Hezbollah; Iran; Lebanon; Syria
KEYWORDS: alawites; assadcultonfr; assadworshippers; hezbollah; iran; latakia; lebanon; maggiemichael; notourcircus; notourmonkeys; reuters; shiites; syria; trollfarm
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1 posted on 06/30/2025 11:15:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Was this our Al Qaeda friends or our Al Qaeda enemies?


2 posted on 06/30/2025 11:26:43 AM PDT by PGR88
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I missed the part where this is my problem.

P.S. this is why Israel should never give up the new land it occupied in the South, which contains Druze the Syrian pigs would also love to slaughter. Keep it forever, along with the Golan.

3 posted on 06/30/2025 11:27:13 AM PDT by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Reuters reporting is horrible

They are often complicit.

Here is the actual video from March 14th.

https://gellerreport.com/2025/03/burning.html/

This is sickening.

Search that page for “heart”

These are not humans doing this, they are Satan’s Beasts. Straight from the pits of Hell.

I have another source that is not web linked with more clear image. Same incident.


4 posted on 06/30/2025 11:38:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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The scars of the Syrian civil war - together with an essentially weak central government, which no allies of neighbors want to see raining a big military of its own - has civilians on opposing sides of the civil war continuing attacks on each other.


5 posted on 06/30/2025 11:40:03 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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They are ISIS. And yes some Al Qaeda.

Don’t call them “our”.

They are not human, they are Satan’s Best’s from Hell.


6 posted on 06/30/2025 11:44:25 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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That’s correct.


7 posted on 06/30/2025 11:47:43 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Alawis are the tribe of the Assads (Hafez and Bashir). They held down the Sunni majority with a brutality the SS would have admired. I personally saw the remains of the town of Hama a few months after a Muslim Brotherhood uprising there was put down. Unfortunately, their protection of other minorities, Christians, Druze, etc., is gone along with the dynasty.


8 posted on 06/30/2025 11:50:01 AM PDT by katana
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Many in Syria resent Alawites, who enjoyed disproportionate influence inside the military and government during Assad’s two-decade rule.


maybe a clue of which bad guys?


9 posted on 06/30/2025 11:53:55 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Thank you.

I have watched the region closely for many years.

Once had a lot of friends there, some still in contact.

I am no longer on Twitter (X). Was there 15 years.


10 posted on 06/30/2025 11:54:23 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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The leader is OUR Isis man. We and the Israelis installed him. It was a decade long project that they pushed to complete before Trump was sworn in.
Trump lifted the sanctions against him and complemented him.

He’s our boy. CIA, State and Lindsey Graham love him.


11 posted on 06/30/2025 12:07:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….There’s really not much to)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Muzzies. Why to we permit them entry into our country?


12 posted on 06/30/2025 12:19:06 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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54 years counting from when Hafez al-Assad took power.


13 posted on 06/30/2025 12:21:28 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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14 posted on 06/30/2025 12:26:17 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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Revenge on the al-Assads!


15 posted on 06/30/2025 12:31:15 PM PDT by Reily
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Assad was Alawite and certainly did worse to non-Alawites and Sunni Muslims. Nusayrism is an offshoot of Shia Islam, which is the main religion of Iran. This brutality cannot be tolerated, but it is certainly understood why the current regime is administering ‘payback’ to the Alawites.


16 posted on 06/30/2025 12:37:12 PM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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These are the people we have let into our country and who the democrats support.


17 posted on 06/30/2025 12:40:59 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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Better than a blue pill for the neocons.


18 posted on 06/30/2025 1:34:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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He’s our boy. CIA, State and Lindsey Graham love him.

For Linda, it's better than surfing Grindr.

19 posted on 06/30/2025 1:36:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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I hope the Assad haters are happy.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and ISIS now rule Syria. Christians, Druze and Alawites are being ruthlessly slaughtered.

Many FReepers actually approve of the slaughter. Assad was a secular leader who protected Christians, Druze and others. Women were also free to lead independent lives without wearing garbage bags and being required to suffer a male guardian. No more.

Gee, thanks Deep State and Israel!


20 posted on 06/30/2025 1:38:21 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free.” The Eagles “The Sad Cafe”)
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